If the historian of the future should deem my service worthy of
some slight reference, it would be my hope that he mention me not as
a commander engaged in campaigns and battles, even though victorious
to American arms, but rather as that one whose sacred duty it became,
once the guns were silenced, to carry to the land of our vanquished
foe the solace and hope and faith of Christian morals.

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to
the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been
accorded by war.